M&M Red Orb Raging Bolt [QC 2/2] [GP 0/1]

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[SET]
Red Orb Wallbreaker (Raging Bolt) @ Red Orb
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 76 HP / 252 SpA / 180 Spe
IVs: 20 AtkI
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Thunderclap
- Weather Ball
- Calm Mind / Draco Meteor

[SET COMMENTS]
Raging Bolt is a premier special wallbreaker and cleaner thanks to its amazing Special Attack and great movepool. Calm Mind facilitates its cleaning and wallbreaking prowess and allows it to do funny things like OHKOing Arceus-Water at +1 with an Electric-type STAB move, but Draco Meteor can be used instead to nail Dragon-types like Eternatus. Red Orb + Weather Ball allows Raging Bolt to deal massive damage, 2HKOing even traditional defensive stalwarts like Arceus-Ground and Galarian Slowking. 180 Speed EVs enable Raging Bolt to outspeed uninvested Solgaleo and Lunala. Urshifu-R synergizes extremely well with Raging Bolt; Urshifu-R deals with Ground-types such as Arceus-Ground and Great Tusk for Raging Bolt and pivots it in to wallbreak, while Raging Bolt deals with foes like Arceus-Water and non-Red Orb Lugia for Urshifu-R. It also pressures shared checks like Eternatus. Other physical wallbreakers such as Gouging Fire, Iron Boulder, and Galarian Zapdos also form good cores with Raging Bolt, as they deal with walls like Eternatus and Garganacl for Raging Bolt, while Raging Bolt deals with ones like Corviknight and Ho-Oh. Raging Bolt struggles against Dragon-types like Eternatus and Altarianite Dragonite; therefore, it appreciates teammates like Arceus-Ground and Solgaleo. Similarly, Ground-types like Arceus-Ground and Great Tusk ruin Raging Bolt's day, so it likes partners that can pressure said Ground-types like Arceus-Water, Walking Wake, and Lugia. Due to its measly Speed tier, it is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Iron Boulder and Tough Claws Gouging Fire. As a result, it appreciates having Extreme Speed users like Hisuian Arcanine, Dragonite, and Regieleki as its teammates; Regieleki also provides Rapid Spin support, which is very useful to Raging Bolt because it doesn't like being chipped by entry hazards at all. Similarly, other Rapid Spin users like Great Tusk and Excadrill and Sablenite users like Corviknight and Mandibuzz are also great partners because of their ability to provide hazard control.

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1/2! as always, well-written.
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Raging Bolt @ Red Orb / Lucarionite no opposition so we separate the sets, ill take dragon rbolt dw
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe 76 HP / 252 SpA / 180 Spe outspeeds 0spe solg/lunala, rest bulk
IVs: 20 Atk
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Thunderclap
- Weather Ball / Dragon Pulse
- Calm Mind / Draco Meteor

[SET COMMENTS]
Raging Bolt is a premier special wallbreaker and cleaner thanks to its amazing Special Attack and wide movepool. Calm Mind facilitates its cleaning prowess, but Draco Meteor can be used instead to nail Dragon-types like Eternatus. Red Orb should generally be used to make Weather Ball Raging Bolt a deadly wallbreaker and deal a fuckton of damage to everything allows Raging Bolt to deal massive damage, 2HKOing even traditional defensive stalwarts like Arceus-Ground and give another here, (RC) but Lucarionite can also be used in case Red Orb is utilized elsewhere; it also makes Raging Bolt slightly faster, allowing it to outspeed Pokemon like Cameruptite Solgaleo. fit the spread reasoning here. Urshifu-R synergizes extremely well with Raging Bolt, dealing with foes like Ground-types such as Arceus-Ground and Great Tusk for Raging Bolt and pivoting it in to wallbreak while it deals with foes like Arceus-Water and non-Red Orb Lugia for Urshifu-R, as well as pressuring shared checks like Eternatus. Other physical wallbreakers such as Gouging Fire, Iron Boulder, and Galarian Zapdos also form good cores with Raging Bolt why?. Raging Bolt is atrociously weak to Dragon-types like Eternatus and Altarianite Dragonite; therefore, it appreciates teammates like Arceus-Ground and Solgaleo. Similarly, Ground-types like Arceus-Ground and Great Tusk ruin its day, so it likes partners like Arceus-Water, Walking Wake, and Lugia. Due to its measly Speed tier, especially with Red Orb, it is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Iron Boulder and Tough Claws Gouging Fire. So id change this to something like "As such" or "Because of this", currently sounds weird when reading, it appreciates having Extreme Speed users like Hisuian Arcanine, Dragonite, and Regieleki as its teammates; Regieleki also provides Rapid Spin support, which is very useful to Raging Bolt because it doesn't like being chipped by entry hazards at all. can you expand on the rocks weakness, mentioning sable users like corv, solg, and mandi along with tusk and regieleki as good partners

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Broken ahh mon

[SET]
Red Orb Wallbreaker (Raging Bolt) @ Red Orb Don't forget set name
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 76 HP / 252 SpA / 180 Spe
IVs: 20 AtkI
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Thunderclap
- Weather Ball
- Calm Mind / Draco Meteor

[SET COMMENTS]
Raging Bolt is a premier special wallbreaker and cleaner thanks to its amazing Special Attack and wide movepool I'm not sure I'd call its movepool that wide; often times you're just using double STAB moves, maybe something else here is more applicable. Calm Mind facilitates its cleaning prowess Maybe highlight that its wallbreaking potential increases too and some calcs maybe, but Draco Meteor can be used instead to nail Dragon-types like Eternatus. Red Orb + Weather Ball Or however you wanna word it, but I'd highlight Weather Ball allows Raging Bolt to deal massive damage, 2HKOing even traditional defensive stalwarts like Arceus-Ground and Galarian Slowking. 180 Speed EVs enable Raging Bolt to outspeed uninvested Solgaleo and Lunala. Urshifu-R synergizes extremely well with Raging Bolt, dealing with foes like Ground-types such as Arceus-Ground and Great Tusk for Raging Bolt and pivoting it in to wallbreak while it deals with foes like Arceus-Water and non-Red Orb Lugia for Urshifu-R, as well as pressuring shared checks like Eternatus. Other physical wallbreakers such as Gouging Fire, Iron Boulder, and Galarian Zapdos also form good cores with Raging Bolt, as they deal with walls like Eternatus and Garganacl for Raging Bolt while Raging Bolt deals with ones like Corviknight and Ho-Oh. Raging Bolt is atrociously weak I get what you mean but technically it's not weak to it so I'd maybe reword it to say it struggles greatly against them or something along the lines to Dragon-types like Eternatus and Altarianite Dragonite; therefore, it appreciates teammates like Arceus-Ground and Solgaleo. Similarly, Ground-types like Arceus-Ground and Great Tusk ruin its day, so it likes partners like Arceus-Water, Walking Wake, and Lugia who can pressure said Ground-types. Due to its measly Speed tier, it is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Iron Boulder and Tough Claws Gouging Fire. As a result, it appreciates having Extreme Speed users like Hisuian Arcanine, Dragonite, and Regieleki as its teammates; Regieleki also provides Rapid Spin support, which is very useful to Raging Bolt because it doesn't like being chipped by entry hazards at all. Similarly, other Rapid Spin users like Great Tusk and Excadrill and Sablenite users like Corviknight and Mandibuzz are also great partners because of their ability to provide hazard control.

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Got no stamp but QC 2/2